Friction drive mechanism for phonograph turntables



1950 F. M. SLOUGH 2,518,826

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Patented Aug. 15, 1950 FRICTION DRIVE MECHANISM FOR PHONOGRAPH TURNTABLE S Frank M. Slough, Lakewood, Ohio, assignor to The General Industries Company, Elyria, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Original application October 13, 1948, Serial No.

54,246. Divided and this application February 17, 1950, Serial No. 144,840

13 Claims.

My invention relates to a plural-speed friction drive mechanism for phonograph turntables, and more particularly relates to unitary adjustable friction gearing therefor, whereby a motor shaft portion thereof may drive such a turntable at selectively different rotational speeds. Fig. 3 is a view of the nature of that of Fig. 2,

This application is'a divisional of my co-pendshowing said operative parts and said lever in a ing application for United States Letters Patent, third adjustment position. filed October 13, 1948, bearing Serial No. 54,246, Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an adjustably which relates to Two-Speed Friction Drive rotatable, and longitudinally extensible mount for Transmission for Phonograph Turntables. a pair of idler pulley journal posts and showing My invention involves an improvement over the speed adjustment lever of the mechanism. prior friction drive mechanisms with which I am s- 5 is l p View f h level of familiar, in that the final drive wheel of the mechi 6 is a i e el v i nal vi w of the lever 0 anism of my invention is not required to be dis- 5 posed at difierent levels which requirement would 7 is a de eievei'lionei w t en along t involve the necessity of providing a more expenline iii-46 of Fig. l. sive turntable having a wider peripheral flange to g- 3 s a View Similar to Fig. 'l but taken alon be engagedby such a wheel. the line |7-i l of Fig. 2.

My invention also involves further improve- Fig. 9 is a side elevational view of 0118 Of the ments, in that only'a single pulley portion of a idler p ys Which is perative to eilect driv motor shaft is required, and that no thin belts or of the turntable a a relatively h h sp d, and the like which are required to b finished t pre- Fig. ill is a side elevational view of another cise dimensions and are therefore expensive to idler p y Whieh s operative to effect driving of produce as well as expensive to maintain are the turntable at a lower speed than is the pulley required. oi Fig. 9.

An object of my invention is to provide an Referring nowtothe drawings, which illustrate improved friction drive mechanism wherein any lp fe ed embodiment 03? y invention of a plurality of pulley elements, each having ain supp ting plate t up n wh h a turntabl upper and lower portions of diametrically difieri5, i5 sllliieerted, is Usually Sheet al. and a cat ratios from any other thereof, may b 1% supplemental plate l i, which carries all parts of tively disposed between a peripheral portion of the mechanism fer driving the turntable. s p the final drive wheel of the mechanism and a 11113131 remevebly Supported irem the main plate relatively lower pulley portion of a motor shaft, by three machine screws l2 thereby o ng a with which said upper pulley portion and said three point usp s n for the p e Said lower pulley portion of the selected pulleyelement mounting Screws being ated m m l c are thereby peripherally engaged. contact with the plates it and H, by rubber Another object of my invention is to provide Spacer elements, g mmets H in accord with a plural-speed friction driving mechanism for present day Common p ct ce. phonograph turntables which is simple and in- 40 The turntable i5 may be carried on the D it expensive in construction, and reliable in use. in a y Well known manner d preferably the Other objects of my invention, and the inven- 1 18 iollrnelled in e beefing carried y the tion itself, will be readily understood by those main p ate iii, for free frictionless rotation. The skilled in the art to which my invention apperturntable is Provided With a p a t perip tains, by reference to the following written deflange I511 p f ra ly h ving a smooth cy indrical scription of a preferred embodiment of my inven- Surface '5 With which the rubber P p l tion wherein reference is had to the following tread ll of the friction wheel H0 is adapted to drawings, whereof be frictionally engaged, whereby rotation of the Figure 1 is a top plan i of unitary a friction wheel may drive the turntable at a speed bly of the elements of the preferred form of my determined y the peripheral p ed of the said invention, a turntable supportin platform and wheel.

a peripheral segment of the turntable flange, the The hub of the wheel H0 is journalled on latter in horizontal section being also shown in an upstanding post it, said post bein fixed by association therewith. its lower end to a yoke portion 19 of a floating Fig. 2 is a somewhat abbreviated view of the U-shaped slide plate I00, said slide being pro- 2 general nature of that in Fig. l, of said embodiment, operative parts of the mechanism being shown in positions assumed thereby during a relatively different adjustment position of an adjustment lever, thereof.

asraaae vided with a pair of parallel arms 2| and 22 which make bearing fitting engagement within slideways afforded by notches in horizontal radially extending flanges 23, 24, 20 and 26 of an I-shaped block 21, said block, slide, and the parts thereof being preferably of the general form of that shown in the prior patent to Hartman, No. 2,421,910, dated June 10, 1947.

The arm 22, of the slide I is suitably apertured at 20 to receive the post I6 and an arm 22 is suitably apertured at 28' to receive a vertically extending stop pin 20, which is, adapted for engagement with the flange 24 of the block 21 to limit forward movements of the slide. The I-shaped block 21 is Joumalled, by its bored hub 3|, on a vertically disposed post 30 whose lower end is rigidly secured to the 'mounting plate I I.

The slide I00 which carries the supporting Journal post for the wheel H0 is slidably extensible with respect to the block 21, being guided during extension movements by the guiding surfaces of the flange slots which receive the parallel slide arms. I

A tension spring secured by its respective ends, to the yoke portion I9 of the slide, and forwardly thereof to the supporting frame II of the mechanism, yieldably maintains said slide in such foremost extended position, and in such laterally swung position as required to efiect engagement by said wheel tread I1 which is of rubber material, with the inner surface of a pendant annular flange such as at I54: and also interchangeable engagement, as later described, with an upper pulley portion I35a or I36 of one or the other of theaxially bored pulleys shown respectively in Fig. 9 at I35, and in Fig. 10 at 36.

The motor, not shown, will be understood to be pendantly so secured to the under side of the common supporting plate II, whereby its power drive shaft is projected vertically upward through a relatively enlarged aperture I33 of said plate to dispose its upper pulley portion I33 above the plate, at a somewhat lower level than the level of the wheel tread I1.

The upper and lower pulley portions for the pulley element I35 are respectively shown in Fig. 9, at I35a and I35b, and the upper and lower pulley portions of the pulley element 36 are respectively shown in Fig. 10 respectively at I36 and I31, the lower pulley portions of both said elements having annular rubber treads. The greater diameter of the lower pulley portion I31 of the element 36 as compared with the lower pulley portion I351) of the element I35, and the different diameters of the upper pulley portions I35a and I36 of the respective elements I36 and 36, are predetermined in any case, to afford such different driving ratios, whereby the wheel H0 may be driven at predetermined different speeds, by power supplied by the shaft pulley I33 to one or the other of the aforesaid lower pulley tread portions I35b or I31, and delivered to the wheel tread I1, respectively by one or the other of the aforesaid upper pulley portions I35a or I36.

Mounting means for said pulleys 36 and 36 and manually adjustable means for selectively disposing each of said pulleys in its operative and alternatively an inoperative position, will now be described:

At I10, an I-shaped block which is similar to but shorter than the block 21, and similarly having a vertically bored hub I8I is shown as journalled, for lateral swinging movements, by its I hub on a vertical jurnal its, by preferably a snug flt, the lower end of the post being rigidly secured to the frame plate ii, and said block being restrained from upward movement on the post by a hair-pin retainer I33.

An adjustmentlever 802 having a-vertically bored boss IE3 is adapted, by said boss, to be snugly telescoped onto the block hub IN, and to be secured to said hub by set screws passed through the opposit threaded apertures I06 of the bored boss walls to clampingly engage lateral surfaces of the-block hub I3 I A-carrier I40 is slidingly mounted in the inwardly directed slots of four rectangularly disposed lateral extensions of the block ItI, by a pair of laterally interspaced parallel arms of a U-shaped slide carrier 0, which arms are forwardly interconnected by a yoke portion 160 of the carrier slide, I40. L

As best shown in 4 a pair of laterally interspaced upstanding journal posts I33 and I30 are mounted near the corners I60 and I6I of the yoke portion I50, of the U-shaped slide carrier I40, and the idler pulleys "Band 36 are respectively telescoped, by their longitudinal bores, on said posts I35 and I36, and retained thereonby spring retainers I62 and I63, respectively. I

A spring I13 is secured by one end to a pin I12 carried by a relatively forward part of the block I10, and its opposite end is convenien ly secured to an upstanding pin I14 secured to a free end of one of the arms of the U-shaped carrier slide I40, and is effective to-resiliently bias the pulley-carrying slide forwardly, while said pin, by engagement with a rear edge of the block I10, limits forward movement, of the slide.

In the following description it will be assumed that the motor shaft I33 is rotated at such a speed relative to the relative diameters of the upper and lower pulley portions of the pulleys I35 and 36, that with said pulleys successively engaged by said respective upper and lower portions with the wheel tread I1 and the shaft pulley I33, the wheel III! will drive the turntable at successively different rotational speeds of '18 R. P. M.-and 33 R. P. M. respectively.

It will, however, be understood that by varying therelative diameters of the upper and lower pulley portions of either of said pulleys I35 and 36, a considerably different resultant rotational speed of the turntable may be effected, as will be clear from the following. relating to difierent adJustment positions of the lever I52.

In the operative position of parts shown in Fig. l the shift lever I52 has been placed in a laterally swun'g position which by way of example, is marked 33 4;? At this position the lever I52 has swung the slide holder I10 to the position shown, wherein the pulley portion I31 of the pulley 36. which is disposed at the relatively low level of the shaft pulley I33, is brought into frictional peripheral engagement with the motor shaft I33, while its uppermost pulley portion which is of relatively lesser diameter has, by the same adjustment movement of the lever I52, been brought into engagement with the tread surface of the friction wheel IIO.

Therefore the said wheel is so driven by said pulley portion I36, that the turntable flange I61: which is disposed in driving engagement with the tread I1 of the wheel I I0 is resultantly driven by the wheel to cause it to rotate at the assumed desired rotational rate of 33 R. P. M.

When the handle I62 is then moved to the rel- III), by the above same swinging movement of the lever I52, the pulley I35 has been caused to engage, by its uppermost portion I35a, and by its lowermost preferably rubber tread portion I35b,

, respectively, with the idler wheel tread and the pulley portion I33 of the motor shaft, respectively, as shown.

In the position which the parts assume when the lever I 52 is further moved in the same clockwise direction to the position shown in Fig. 3, the slide holder I10 has been so swung that both of the pulleys I35 and I36 are moved entirely out of contact with the tread of the friction wheel I I0, and also out of contact with the motor shaft I33, and at this time, the outwardly projecting portion of the shift lever I52 is caused to engage and depress the switch button I55, to operate the switch to interrupt the energizing circuit of the motor which is thus rendered inactive during the above described neutral, inoperative, off adjustment position of the described parts.

In moving either of the lowermost pulley portions ltl and i351) respectively of the pulleys I36 and I35, from their successively described positions of engagement with the motor shaft pulley l33, each of the said lowermost pulley portions Hi1 and 1135b ride over said pulley I33 and are cammed thereby to cause the pulley-carrying slide I40 to retract on the holder I10 against the pressure of the yieldable spring I13 until both of said pulleys I36 and I35 are swung clockwise, beyond the shaft pulley I33.

At a time when either or both of the lowermost portions l35b of the pulley I35, and the lowermost portion I31 of the pulley I36, are preliminarily disposed, in the clockwise direction, beyond the position of the shaft pulley I33, any such inoperatively positioned pulley may be restored to the illustrated operative position therefor, which for the respective pulleys I36 and I31,

are respectively shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by rotating the lever in the counter-clockwise direction to either the position shown in Figt-2yor the position shown in Fig. 1, to respectively effect driving of the turntable at the exemplary speeds of 78 R. P. M. or 33 R. P. M. respectively. During the lower pulley portion of any such inoperatively placed pulley will again ride over the shaft pulley i333, which again deflects it, to its illustrated operative position with respect thereto.

During such times as the drive wheel H0 is peripherally engaged with the upper pulley portion of either of the pulleys I35 or 36, said Wheel is deflected laterally against the opposing pressure of the spring 10 which yieldably maintains any such engagement.

The relative positioning of the axis of one of the idler pulleys I35, or 36, with respect to the axis of the shaft I33 and with the axis of the wheel H0, is preferably such that lines extending from said idler pulley axis to said shaft and wheel axes are divergent at an acute angle approaching a right angle and roughly approximating the relative angularity of the arms of a numeral, 7.

Also when the upper and lower pulley portions of either pulley I35 or I36 are respectively adjustablyengaged with the wheel tread I1 and the shaft pulley portion I33, or being swung over said tread and shaft portion, the spring I13 will yieldably permit retraction of the pulleys and slide I40.

The spring I13 is effective, in operative adjustment positions of either pulley I35 or I36, tc maintain pressure engagement of the lower portions of any selected one of said pulleys with said shaft pulley portion.

Although I have described my invention in one preferred embodiment thereof, I am aware that numerous and extensive departures may be made therefrom, without, however, departing from the spirit of my invention and the scope of the ap pended claims.

What I claim is:

l. A selective plural speed friction drive mechanism for phonograph turntables having an annular flange, comprising a vertical motor shaft affording a pulley end portion, a plurality of relatively laterally disposed friction drive pulley elements, movable mount means adapting said elements for lateral shifting movement, a wheel having a friction tread and a movable mount therefor adapting it for lateral movements, said wheel being so disposable as to effect engagement of its tread with a phonograph turntable flange, each of said elements having an upper and a lower pulley portion which are respectively disposed at the levels of said tread and said shaft pulley portion, the ratio of relative diameters of said pulley portions, in the case of different of said elements, being substantially different, adjustment means having an actuating member adapted to be adlustably moved from and to, different relatively interspaced stations located in a path of movement which is of like directional nature throughout, said mount means for said elements being so laterally movable, in response to station-to-station adjustment movements of said actuating member, as to effect disengagement from said wheel tread and from said shaft portion, of the upper and lower pulley portions, respectively, of any one of said elements whose said portions have been, respectively, previously engaged therewith, and in response to the same adjustment movement of said member, said mount means being so disposed as to effect engagement of the respective upper and lower pulley portions of another of said elements with said wheel tread and said shaft pulley portion respectively, spring means adapted to yieldably such counter-clockwise adjustment movement,

apply a laterally directed resilient effort tending to maintain said wheel tread in engagement with an upper pulley portion of an operatively positioned one of said elements, and concurrently adapted to yieldably oppose lateral displacement of said wheel, by the effect of the engagement of its tread with any said thereby engaged turntable flange.

2. A plural-speed friction drive mechanism for driving a phonograph turntable of the type having an annular flange, comprising a friction wheel having a tread of rubber or like material, a laterally movable mount affording a journal on which said wheel may rotate on a vertical axis, at least two friction pulley elements, a rotatable motor shaft having a pulley portion disposed at a lower level than said wheel tread, said elements each provided with relatively upper and lower coaxial pulley portions which in the case of different of said elements are in diametrically different ratios to each other, and which upp r and lower portions are respectively disposed at the respective levels of said wheel tread and said shaft portion, a common mount upon which said elements are Journalled in laterally interspaced relation, said common mount adapted for movement to alternate adjustment positions in respective of which adifferent of said elements is disposed in an operative position wherein its said upper portion is frictionally engaged with said wheel tread, and wherein its said lower portion is frictionally engaged with said shaft pulley portion, a frame upon which said shaft, wheel and elements are secured in unitary relation, said wheel being so disposed on said frame that said frame may be so disposed with reference to a phonograph turntable as to place the wheel tread in driving engagement with a lateral surface of an annular flange of a turntable, and spring means exerting resilient laterally directed efforts on said mounts, to resiliently maintain the respective portions of an operatively positioned element in concurrent frictional engagement with said wheel tread and with said shaft pulley portion respectively, and to resiliently resist displacement of said wheel tread from engagement with an associated turn'table flange.

3. A plural-speed friction drive mechanism for phonograph turntables of the type having a pendant annular flange, a vertically extending motor drive shaft affording a pulley portion disposed at a first level, a wheel having a cushion friction tread disposed at a higher second level, a laterally movable mount upon which said wheel is Journalled for rotation about a vertical axis, a lever having an actuator portion adapted to be oppositely laterally swung in an arcuate path of movement to any of a plurality of stations in said path. a laterally movable carrier, a plurality of idler pulley elements, each separately journalled in relatively interspaced relation to each other on said carrier, each of said elements having an upper and a lower pulley portion the diametrical ratio-between which being different in the case of different of said elements, said portions being respectively disposed at said second and said first levels, said carrier being laterally movable in response to successive station-to-station movements of said lever in the same direction to processionally move said pulley elements to effect sequential operative engagement concurrently by the respective upper and lower portions of each with said wheel tread and said shaft pulley portion, spring means adapted to resiliently yieldably maintain such operative en- Easement with respect to the said portions of any such engaged one of said elements, and a frame to which said shaft, wheel mount, carrier and lever are unitarily with said wheel tread so disposed to be engageable with a lateral surface of a turntable flange to drive the turntable.

4. The friction drive mechanism substantially as set forth in claim 3 wherein said spring means comprises a pair of springs, a first thereof being so disposed to exert a resilient efiort on said wheel mount as to cause said wheel tread to be maintained in engagement with said upper portion of a pulley element disposed in the recited operative position, the second of said springs being so disposed to exert a resilient effort to yieldably maintain the said lower portion of an operatively positioned pulley element in engagement with said shaft pulley portion.

5. A plural-speed frictional drive mechanism for driving a phonograph turntable of the type 8 having an annular flange at selectively different speeds, comprising a frame unitarily carrying all parts of the mechanism, said parts comprising a final drive wheel having a cushioning friction tread, a vertically extending rotatable motor power shaft affording a friction drive pulley portion disposed at a lower level than that of said wheel tread, a plurality of idler pulleys, each thereof having an upper and a relatively lower co-axial pulley portion, said upper and lower idler pulley portions being respectively disposed at the respective levels of said wheel tread and of ,said shaft pulley portion, the ratio of diameters as between said portions of any of said pulleys, being diiferent from the diametrical ratio between corresponding portions of any other of said pulleys, said framebeing adapted for disposition to effect peripheral frictional driving engagement between said wheel tread and a turntable flange, said pulleys. said shaft pulley portion, and said wheel being rotatable on parallel axes, laterally movable mount means for said wheel, a common laterally movable carrier for all of said pulleys, said carrier adapted for lateral movements to at least a pair of operative adjustment positions in diiferent of which the upper and lower portions of a different of said idler pulley are respectively frictionally engaged respectively with said wheel tread and with said drive shaft pulley portion, an adjustment member adjustably movable from either of a pair of relatively interspaced stations, located in a path of movement of uniformly like nature throughout, to the other of said stations, said carrier being movable in response to either of such movements of said member, to disengage the said pulley portions of one of said pulleys from their said respectively engaged wheel tread and shaft pulley portion, and in response to the same station-to-station movement of said member, the said carrier being so moved as to enage the respective upper and lower pulley portions of another of said pulleys, respectively with said wheel tread and said shaft pulley portion, and spring means yieldably constraining said wheel and any operatively positioned pulley to their respective operative adjustment positions wherein said operatively positioned pulley is frictionally engaged by said shaft pulley portion and by said wheel tread, and the wheel tread is restrained from disengagement from a relatively engaged turntable flange.

6. A plural-speed friction drive mechanism for driving a phonograph turntable, having an annular flange, at different speeds, comprising a vertical motor shaft having an upper pulley pontion, a final drive wheel having a friction tread which is disposed at a higher level than said shaft pulley portion, and being adapted to be peripherally engaged with a fiange of a tumtable, a laterally movable mount affording a Journal upon which said wheel is rotatable about a vertical axis, a laterally adjustable pulley carrier, a plurality of idler pulley elements Journailed in interspaced relation on said carrier for rotation, each on a vertical axes, each of said idler elements having relatively upper and lower pulley portions, the relative diameters of the said pulley portions of different of said idler elements being substantially different, said upper and lower idler element portions being respectively disposed at the level of said wheel tread and at the level of said shaft pulley portion, spring means biasing said wheel mount to yieldably force said wheel tread toward said elements,

and said carrier being adjustably movable to different successive stations in a path of movement to dispose different of said elements in an operative position in response to positioning of said carrier at the different stations, and each said operatively positioned element being in en gagement by its upper portion with said wheel tread, and by its lower portion with said shaft pulley portion.

7. The transmission mechanism for driving phonograph turntables of the pendant annular flanged type, comprising a friction wheel, a pluality of pulleys, and a motor shaft affording a pulley surface, said wheel, said pulleys, and said shaft journalled to rotate on vertical axes, said wheel being disposable in peripheral frictional engagement with an inner surface of a turntable flange, each of said pulleys having an upper and a relatively co-axial lower pulley portion, adapted. to be interchangeably selectively interposed between, and in concurrent peripheral engagement by its respective upper and lower 'portions, with said wheel and said shaft pulley surface, the relative diameters of thesaid upper and lower pulley portion for different 'of said pulleys being in different ratios, and manually operable adjustment means adapted for differing adjustment movements, to selectively interpose any of said pulleys in its operative position wherein its said upper and lower pulley portion is frictionally engaged respectively with the periphery of said wheel, and with the pulley surface of said shaft.

8. A plural-speed friction drive mechanism for peripherally flanged phonograph turntables, comprising a final drive wheel having a friction tread adapted for engagement with a turntable flange, a laterally movable mount affording an upstanding journal post for said wheel, a spring so located and so applied to said wheel mount as to tend to retractively roll the wheel tread on an engaged turntable flange, a laterally shiftable support and a plurality of laterally interspaced upstanding journal posts thereon, a vertical motor shaft having a pulley portion disposed at a lower level than the level of said wheel tread, a plurality of pulley elements, each having an upper and a lower pulley portion, different of said elements journalled on different posts of said support, the ratio of diameters of the respective upper and lower portions in the case of different of said elements, being different, said support being adjustably laterally movable in either of two opposite directions to different adjustment positions to selectively dispose of any of said elements in an operative position whereby its lower pulley portion is frictionally engaged with said shaft pulley portion, and whereby concurrently an upper pulley portion thereof is frictionally engaged with said wheel tread, and a second spring associated with said pulley support and yieldably urging said support in a direction lateral to its direction of movement to resiliently maintain the said lower pulley portion of an operatively positioned pulley element in frictional engagement with said shaft pulley portion, and said wheel tread being concurrently resiliently maintained in engagement with the upper pulley portion of the same element.

9. A motor transmission mechanism for selectively driving a phonograph turntable having an annular flange, at substantially different rotational speeds, of the type wherein a rotatable wheel is adapted to frictionally communicate driving motion from a motor drive shaft to said turntable flange, comprising in combination with said wheel and a driving end portion of said shaft, a plurality of rotatable idler pulley elements adapted to be interchangeably interpositioned between said shaft and said wheel, said pulley elements each having an upper and a lower pulley portion and said wheel and a driving portion 01' said shaft being respectively disposed at the respective levels of said upper and lower pulley portions, a manually adjustable member movable to at least two different adjustment positions, means operable, in response to movement of said member to different of said adjustment positions, to shift the lateral position of said rotatable idler pulley elements with respect to said wheel and to said shaft, to frictionally engage either pulley element, by its relatively upper and lower pulley portions, with said Wheel and said shaft pulley portion, at least one of said rotatable idler pulley elements being of such stepped form as to cause its said upper and lower portions to be of relatively different diameters, whereby when said stepped pulley element is operatively engaged by its said upper and lower portions with said wheel and said shaft pulley portion, in substitution for engagement thereof by the upper and lower portions of another said pulley element, said wheel is caused to rotate at a different otational rate.

10. The transmission mechanism substantially as set forth in claim 8, characterized by said wheel being provided with a peripheral facing of yieldable friction material and the lower pulley portion of each of the idler pulley elements which is adapted for engagement with said driving shaft pulley portion being also peripherally faced with yieldable friction material.

11. The transmission mechanism substantially as set forth in claim 9, characterized by the provision of carrier means, said rotatable pulley elements being separately journalled on said carrier means, and said adjustment means adapted to selectively move said carrier means to interchangeably position any of said rotatable idler pulley elements in its said operative position.

12. The mechanism substantially as set forth in claim 6, characterized by the recited upper portion of each said upper portion of said pulley elements having a smooth friction surface, said wheel and the lower portions of said pulley portions being each peripherally faced with rubber or other slightly compressible material.

13. A friction drive mechanism for peripheral flanged phonograph turntables comprising a final drive friction wheel rotatable on a vertical axis engageable with a turntable flange, a vertically extending motor shaft affording a drive pulley portion, a plurality of idler pulley elements, each having upper and lower pulley portions in diametrically diiferent ratios from any other thereof, a laterally movable mount on which said idler pulleys are journalled in relatively interposed parallel relation, said respective upper and lower idle pulley portions of each element being disposed at the respective levels of peripheral portions of said wheel and shaft, and the respective said portions of said element being, interchangeably, respectively engageable with peripheral portions of said wheel and of said drive shaft pulley portion, in response to lateral positioning of said mount in different laterally adjustable positions, an adjustably swingable carrier member on which said mount is slidably carried, and spring means exerting a resilient effort on said mount to so slidably move it on said carrier, to yieldably urge the lower pulley portion of any said idler pulley elect and minin'tain pressure engagement at said lower pulley bortion, with said drive pulley.

' FRANK M. SIDUGH.

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